Bravo for John Lott’s revealing research on the impact that concealed carry laws are having on crime. That such laws have been passed in 31 states, coinciding with passage of “Three Strikes” and “Hard Time for Armed Crime” legislation, is the real reason we are seeing a decline in reported violent crime. Those who have advocated restrictive gun control over the years, and other intrusions on the rights of individual citizens, are now being shown as the liars they’ve always been. In the wake of the Arkansas tragedy, I remain more firmly convinced than ever that gun control advocates are glad such shooting rampages to occur, simply in order to further their own agenda. The veneer is wearing thin, however, as from your own USA Today polling, the majority of respondents support gun ownership, and are now rejecting arguments that restrictions on our Constitutional rights will control crime.
Dave Workman
3/28/98
From http://www.intellectualcapital.com/issues/98/0326/icpro.asp (Link appears to be dead now)
Category Archives: Quote of the Day
Quote of the day–Josh Billings
Aristocrat: A democrat with his pockets full
Josh Billings
Quote of the day–Robert Bork
Those who made and endorsed our Constitution knew man’s nature, and it is to their ideas, rather than to the temptations of utopia, that we must ask that our judges adhere.
Robert Bork
The Tempting of America
Quote of the day–Justice Robert H. Jackson
It is not the function of our government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error.
Quote of the day–Tench Coxe
Who are the militia? Are they not ourselves? Is it feared, then, that we shall turn our arms each man against his own bosom? Congress shall have no power to disarm the militia. Their swords and every other terrible implement of the soldier, are the birth-right of an American ….The unlimited power of the sword is not in the hands of either the federal or the state governments, but where I trust in God it will ever remain, in the hands of the People.
Tench Coxe
Pennsylvania Gazette
Feb. 20, 1788.
Quote of the day–William F. Buckley, Jr.
Socialize the individual’s surplus and you socialize his spirit and creativeness; you cannot paint the Mona Lisa by assigning one dab of paint to a thousand painters.
William F. Buckley, Jr.
Literature
Up From Liberalism
Quote of the day–Jeff Cooper
Family member and full-time California cop Gabriel Suarez, who is gradually working up to his Ace Rating in police actions, contributes the following:
Gun control is a band-aid, feeling good approach to the nation’s crime problem. It is easier for politicians to ban something than it is to condemn a murderer to death or a robber to life in prison. In essence, ‘gun control’ is the coward’s way out.
Jeff Cooper
From Jeff Cooper’s Commentaries
Vol. 2, No. 12
27 September 1994
Quote of the day–Sarah Brady
I commend Senator Durbin, Congressman John Porter and the rest of our friends in the Congress for introducing this important legislation. To allow this nation to return to cash-and-carry tragedies is unimaginable.
Sarah Brady
Chair of HCI (now The Brady Campaign)
February 24, 1999
Regarding a proposed federal law for a permanent waiting period for firearms purchases after the temporary waiting period expired when the “instant check” came online.
From http://www.bradycampaign.org/press/release.php?release=164 (as of October 27, 2005)
[This is how the other side works. Get something through then incrementally “improve” it. We need to do the same. — Joe]
Quote of the day–Greg Hamilton
Shooting at the head is a tough one. There’s really only two spots you can really do any good with a handgun. The eyes. Any higher and even if you do get through the armor you’ll only take off the top half of the brain that he never uses anyway. It will be impressive with lots of blood, but it won’t stop him. You have to take out the lower part of his brain, the monkey portion of his brain.
Greg Hamilton
Self Defense Instructor
Nov. 19, 1995
Quote of the day–Harry S Truman
I never give them hell. I just tell the truth, and they think it is hell.
Harry S Truman
1884-1972
33rd President of the United States
Quoted in Look April 3, 1953
[And so it is when we debate gun rights with the anti-freedom bigots. — Joe]
Quote of the day–Eric Hoffer
Scratch an intellectual and you find a would-be aristocrat who loathes the sight, the sound and the smell of common folk.
Eric Hoffer
First Things, Last Things
1970
Quote of the day–Amanda Matlosz
They [Clinton’s “good job rating” poll results] would probably be higher if he had made a video.
Amanda Matlosz
12/21/98
[Sarcasm about the public opinion after it was revealed President Clinton had been having sex with an intern in the Oval Office and lied about it under oath. — Joe]
Quote of the day–Dwight David Eisenhower
Public opinion wins wars.
Dwight David Eisenhower
1890-1969
General
34th President of the United States
[This is particular true in the war we are fighting against the anti-freedom bigots on the repressive gun laws in this country. — Joe]
Quote of the day–Charles Waddell Chesnutt
Those who set in motion the forces of evil cannot always control them afterwards.
Charles Waddell Chesnutt
The Marrow of Tradition
1901
[Gun control and national ID cards are prime examples. — Joe]
Quote of the day–Harry S Truman
At the present moment in world history nearly every nation must choose between alternative ways of life. The choice is too often not a free one.
One way of life is based upon the will of the majority, and is distinguished by free institutions, representative government, free elections, guarantees of individual liberty, freedom of speech and religion, and freedom from political oppression.
The second way of life is based upon the will of the minority forcibly imposed upon the majority. It relies upon terror and oppression, a controlled press and radio, fixed elections, and the suppression of personal freedoms.
I believe that it must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures.
I believe that we must assist free peoples to work out their own destinies in their own way.
Harry S Truman
Message to Congress
Later known as Truman Doctrine
March 12, 1947
Quote of the day–Post Office Department
The program shall include procurement, transportation, storage, and distribution of safety notification and emergency change of address cards…
Executive Order 11490, Part 6, Post Office Department, SECTION 601, Functions
October 28, 1969
Plans for the event of a nuclear attack on the United States.
Quote of the day–Eric Hoffer
Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. Thus people haunted by the purposelessness of their lives try to find a new content not only by dedicating themselves to a holy cause but also by nursing a fanatical grievance. A mass movement offers them unlimited opportunities for both.
Eric Hoffer
Section 75, The True Believer
Quote of the day–Robert Spencer
The abolition of the caliphate, then, accomplished precisely the opposite of what Ataturk hoped it would: it gave the adherents of political Islam a cause around which to rally, recruit, and mobilize. In essence, it gave birth to the crisis that engulfs the world today. It is likely that a destruction of the Ka’aba or the Al-Aqsa Mosque would have the same effect: it would become source of spirit, not of dispirit. The jihadists would have yet another injury to add to their litany of grievances, which up to now have so effectively confused American leftists into thinking that the West is at fault in this present conflict. But the grievances always shift; the only constant is the jihad imperative. Let us not give that imperative even greater energy in the modern world by supplying such pretexts needlessly.
Quote of the day–Frederick Taylor
…almost twenty-one hundred American aircraft were to be found over central and eastern Germany around the middle of that day. For the German population on the ground, it must have seemed that the sky was black with machines that meant them harm.
…
The entire First Division would deliver 678.3 tons of HE (“general purpose”) bombs and 400 tons of incendiaries.
Frederick Taylor
From his book: Dresden, Tuesday, February 13, 1945
Chapter 23: Ash Wednesday
Quote of the day–Leaflets dropped on Hiroshima
Your city will be obliterated unless your government surrenders.
Leaflets dropped on Hiroshima
August 5, 1945